Asked by his first-choice college about a challenge he'd overcome, "Frank" wrote about struggling with algebra in ninth grade. He'd...

Obsessing over who gets into elite colleges and universities is an odd preoccupation for progressives, argues Francisco Toro on...

The very rich are different: They can get their kids into ultra-selective universities. Upper-middle-class won't do it. And it helps -- a...

Asked their gender, race and disability status, a surprising number of engineering and computer science students identify as military...

The slogan "We don't co-parent with the government" has mobilized "an enormous and growing" number of Americans, writes Robert Pondiscio,...

Elite colleges should create and fund middle and high schools to educate disadvantaged students, writes Roland Fryer, a Harvard economics...

Elite universities reward applicants -- students and job-hunting professors -- who can play racial identity games, writes Tyler Austin...

Racial preferences in college admissions are unconstitutional, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled, striking down affirmative action plans...

Affirmative action in college admissions has failed to help disadvantaged black students, writes Bertrand Cooper in The Atlantic. If the...

America's 13-year-olds are moving backwards educationally, according to a new report on long term trends by the National Assessment of...

"Culturally relevant teaching" has spread rapidly, but it's getting some push back, writes Michael Torres on City Journal. "Families,...

The good news is that two-thirds of students give their schools an A or B grade in a Gallup/Walton survey of students in grades 5 to 12....

Half of adults disapprove of colleges considering race and ethnicity in admissions, while one third approve and the rest are unsure,...

Charter schools are outperforming traditional public schools, according to a new study by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes...

U.S. history textbooks don't include much about Latino Americans, concludes a report by Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and...

Elementary students don't learn more from a teacher who matches them in race or ethnicity, concludes a new study. There is little...

President Biden keeps talking about "book bans," writes Andrew Rotherham on Eduwonk. It's become "a nervous tic" for Education Secretary...

Separating medical students into racial affinity groups supports the "antiracist and anti-oppression curriculum," argues an article in...

I'm so old I remember when segregation was considered a bad thing. Evanston Township High (ETHS), just north of Chicago, created...

Washington state plans to make ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement, but it's not clear what that means, writes David J....